Climate change: What competencies and which medical education and training approaches?

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bell, Erica J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CURRICULUM; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; RURAL POPULATION; TEACHING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; PUBLIC POLICY; RURAL POPULATION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77951579079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-10-31     Document Type: Article

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